Readers can find out about Michael Gaudet’s account of his ‘tip to tip’ ultra-run in 2012.and a remarkable story about what happened to a bottle containing a hand-written message that thrown off the Souris/Madeleines ferry in 2010.

this issue also contains a tribute to organic farmer Raymond Loo, a recollection of Colin Campbell McColl of Belfast, Christmas stories from west and east, a Valentines Day story that will probably make even the most hard-bitten readers mist up, and more.